Stars of legendary kids TV show reunite and look worlds away from nineties fame

THE stars of the legendary kids TV amusement Wide Awake Club person reunited to observe the 80s series' 40th birthday.

Michaela Strachan shared a snap of herself with the show's archetypal presenters Timmy Mallet and Arabella Warner.

The Wide Awake Club ran from 1984 until 1989 arsenic portion of TV-AM.

It was a hugely fashionable kids amusement and aired connected Saturday Mornings for an hr from 8.30am.

When the amusement archetypal kicked off, it was presented by Timmy, Arabella and James Baker.

Tommy Boyd past joined successful 1985, with Michaela signing up to the amusement the pursuing year.

The unrecorded programme combined comedy, games, celebrity guests, competitions and spectator interaction.

There were besides much acquisition features, including visiting experts specified arsenic Carol Vorderman.

The amusement besides launched the vocation of Hollywood movie prima Mike Myers.

Today, Michaela shared however she had reunited with Arabella and Timmy, positive members of the Wide Awake Club squad to observe their 40th anniversary.

Posting a slew of pics from their reunion, she wrote: "Had a Wide Awake Club reunion today. 40 yrs! Can you judge it?!

"Great to spot immoderate of the founding accumulation squad arsenic good arsenic @TimmyMallett & Arabella Warner 2 of the archetypal presenters.

"So galore astonishing memories. Making Telly successful the 80s was conscionable the best!"

Since the amusement ended, Michaela has had a glittering vocation arsenic a presenter moving mostly connected quality programmes, with kids of the 80s knowing her for the children's show, The Really Wild Show.

Alongside this, she besides appeared connected the archetypal Good Morning Britain.

Up until 2009, Michaela was a regular newsman for BBC One show, Countryfile.

These days Michaela is champion known for being 1 of the hosts of BBC shows Springwatch and Winterwatch.

Timmy Mallett, meanwhile, besides continued to big kids shows passim the 80s and 90s.

He was champion known for for his deed series Wacaday with his infamous companion Pinky Punky, a brushed artifact hammer.

The prima besides fronted Timmy Towers.

In 2008, helium returned to television and took portion in I'm A Celebrity, sharing the Australian campy with stars including Nicola McLean and Joe Swash.

The kids' TV prima antecedently spoke about CITV closing down for good and moving to ITVX.

He told The Sun: "It’s conscionable a antithetic mode of accessing the material, truthful the programmes are inactive determination and children volition ever find them.

"If you look astatine the TV figures, radical accidental ‘oh it’s got an assemblage similar that oregon this’ good if you were to comparison that with children’s TV audiences close up there, they’re enormous. Kids find them.

"The location grown endowment and programming is there, they’re conscionable not connected astatine mainstream times.

"We utilized to travel location from schoolhouse and Blue Peter would beryllium connected with everything else, present you’ve got to spell to your ain transmission to find it."

Meanwhile, Arabella Warner has switched careers and is present a freelance writer and filmmaker.

Her LinkedIn illustration reads: "I person worked successful Children's Television for implicit 30 years, arsenic a writer, producer, manager and presenter connected groundbreaking shows including 'Teletubbies', 'Bottletop Bill' and 'The Wide Awake Club'.

"I specialise successful penning for a preschool audience. I americium besides creator manager of Kestrel Theatre Company, a charity that uses theatre and film to enactment creatively successful the transgression justness system."